Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success Importance of Leadership Team Offsites Leadership team offsites play a pivotal role in shaping the future of an organization. By stepping away from daily operations, you and your team can focus on long-term goals, engage in deep discussions, and forge stronger bonds.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Design Exercises 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

A culture that embraces change and is open to new ideas will naturally drive innovation, leading to greater business growth and the development of competitive advantages. As a leader, you are in a powerful position to shape and develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change.

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Underperforming Technical Team Culture Leadership Change 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Importance of Strategic Thinking for Senior Executives Strategic thinking is an indispensable element for senior executives. As a senior leader, strategic thinking enables you to anticipate market trends, identify potential challenges, and devise plans that steer your organization towards sustained success.

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Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Technical Review 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Importance of Strategic Thinking for Senior Executives Strategic thinking is an indispensable element for senior executives. As a senior leader, strategic thinking enables you to anticipate market trends, identify potential challenges, and devise plans that steer your organization towards sustained success.

Strategic Thinking 100

Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Technical Review 100

Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By fostering innovation in the workplace, you lay the groundwork for your organization to adapt, thrive, and dictate market trends. Companies that prioritize innovation tend to report higher growth rates, better market share, and increased profitability. This includes reviewing how ideas are generated, developed, and implemented.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Training Culture 100

BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

The objective involved taking twenty-three tables of participants through innovation strategy exercises to identify disruptive concepts, craft strategies, document audience profiles, imagine ideas, develop market positions, and propose all the ideas in 9-second pitches. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Where Does Your Brand Live?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

The objective was to help them become better strategic thinkers and marketers. It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming 40

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

It received enough attention that we decided to share an additional strategic thinking exercise that puts a twist on the typical SWOT analysis. In this case, the letters in the SWOT analysis name still stand for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Being a leading instigator for market disruption ?

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Analysis Underperforming Technical Team 40

Innov8rs

MARCH 10, 2025

How can innovation be effectively connected with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a structured and measurable way? Business Model Development: “If sustainability isnt part of your business model, youre missing a massive opportunity. And bad data is just as dangerous as no data at all.”

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Here’s why adaptation is crucial: Sustained Relevance: Staying in tune with market changes ensures that your business remains relevant to your customers’ evolving needs. Competitive Advantage: By embracing innovation, you can differentiate your business from competitors and potentially capture a larger market share.

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Disruption Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 100

BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2019

They advance a model explaining superior fighter pilot performance as a recommended way for how to avoid disruption in your markets. They also share fundamentals behind the model: Scan – Be on the lookout for new market patterns, emerging customer preferences, unfamiliar competitors, and pattern-breakers changing your industry.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In the spirit of the first Agility question below, rather than trying to imagine questions from across all the companies listed, we limited the focus to creative thinking questions inspired by the top ten most innovative companies’ innovation journeys and priorities. 16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The integration of AI technologies has led to the emergence of new business models and has disrupted established market dynamics. This impact is evident across various facets of business, from operational efficiency and customer experience to product development and market analysis.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Artificial Inteligence Change 100

BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Building the Team. Expect turnover in the team.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Collaboration 40

Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By facilitating strategic planning offsites, executives can harness the collective expertise of their team to forge a path toward sustained success. Improved Focus : With day-to-day distractions left behind, your team can concentrate fully on strategic issues and high-level thinking. Objectives should be S.M.A.R.T

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BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence offered an internal branding strategy take on the United Airlines woes, offering strategic thinking questions you can ask and answer to improve your brand’s resiliency and avoid brand crises. Here are three internal branding weak spots the United incident highlights.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2018

“The more bad ideas the better. If you work really hard on coming up with bad ideas, sooner or later, some good ideas are going to slip through.” – Seth Godin (June 19, 2018). If innovation is lagging, purposefully use this concept to get your team thinking bigger while it throws off smaller, innovative benefits along the way. #2

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 72

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

He’s developing a short list of potential candidates for a new market research initiative at his company. It was clear that the organization’s team had already decided that a request for proposal was the best way to determine which outside vendor will be the best market research partner. Stimulate fresh thinking.

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Underperforming Technical Team eBook Strategic Thinking Exercises 40

BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Yesterday, we identified the six types of strategic planning process activities we use to design a client’s strategic thinking workshop. To facilitate you going deeper into thinking about how these activities function within a strategic planning process workshop, here are articles in each of the six areas.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

After talking with a friend, I think the percent of time you are told to pull back your creative ideas because they are too big and bold may be a good way to assess how your creativity is faring in an organization. Alternatively, you may be in a place that is thinking way too small; you should get out as soon as you can.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

I reviewed all eighty-six pages to develop our change management strategy primer. A 13-Point Strategic Change Management Checklist. Strategic Thinking about What to Keep and What to Creatively Change. Why Change Is Hard – 3 Strategic Thinking Ideas for Making Change Easy. 10 Bad Reasons to Change Strategy.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

You probably can’t stop, research different strategic thinking exercises, and incorporate them into your strategy session. What can you do right away to turn deadly strategic thinking exercises into fun strategic planning exercises? Strategic Planning Exercises Can Be Fun. Rearrange working groups.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Here’s an alternative approach we use all the time during strategic conversations: listen for specific types of comments and organize them as you go (or after the fact) into strategic deliverables. For example, before a strategic planning workshop started the other day, an internal client leader held court with the project team.

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Underperforming Technical Team eBook Strategic Thinking Exercises 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

EAG: I think it’s the fact that when you saw that the market wasn’t doing what it had been doing, you took things into your own hands and found a way to do it anyway. I was watching this all develop over the course of about eight years. Photo: Harper Point Photography. I’m like, WHAT?! He says, It was really good!

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

What are basic brand strategy moves to quickly take an older brand into today’s market? We raised the question yesterday of how brands rekindle, dust off, improve, innovate upon, and reintroduce themselves to the market. Example – A cereal or candy brand marketing itself as a brand you remember from childhood).

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, Research in Motion (RIM) was a major player in a worldwide market that sold about one billion cell phones annually (the term “smartphone” was new). Conduct market research? Would it have a new product development or innovation process? Would that company invest in R&D?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

"I want your help developing my direct reports into stronger leaders," John* the new CEO of Fasseni, a $350 million technology company, told me several years ago. They had been hovering around the same revenue point for years and their competitors were gaining market share. Initially, I approached the request like any consultant might.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

“There’s no team without trust,” says Paul Santagata, Head of Industry at Google. Studies show that psychological safety allows for moderate risk-taking, speaking your mind, creativity, and sticking your neck out without fear of having it cut off — just the types of behavior that lead to market breakthroughs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results. Yet, the Growth Manager role remains poorly understood, especially outside Silicon Valley.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If the wisdom of crowds applies to strategic thinking, popular strategies should out­perform the loners. You and Your Team Series. Thinking Strategically. No one proposes a strategy thinking it will fail, so you must be able to tell the difference between good and bad loner strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

And that means that hiring is one of the most crucial tasks for anyone who manages a team. You and Your Team. How to build a strong team. Top recruitment teams use analytics effectively, learn from data, and create frameworks to make future decisions. Hiring and Firing. Hiring and Firing. That’s simply unacceptable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

I find these particularly relevant to personal development, as individuals often must resolve the tensions between competing values and traits and must carefully monitor their own strengths so those strengths don’t lapse into weaknesses. Markets demand that companies and people adapt and change constantly. Mark Bonchek.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Other organizations develop sophisticated models. If you notice that your best-performing teams are also your most diverse, that may be interesting. That is why the best thinkers, the most accurate predictors, and the most effective design teams use ensembles of models. Your hypothesis represents a model of the world.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability. Decision making in today’s organizations often no longer has the necessary responsiveness, detaching them from both their customer base and market realities.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Even so, actual games are still taboo in most organizations—the stereotype of the work-avoiding employee cracking new high scores in Minesweeper has given gaming a bad name. We think that games have an important place in cultivating good strategists, and that now more than ever games can give executives an edge over their competition.

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